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http://www.polycom.com/home/
Founded in 1990, Polycom is the only company today delivering end-to-end rich media collaborative applications for voice, video, data and the web from desktop and mobile personal systems to room systems to the network core. Our vision is to enable people to connect anytime, anyplace and with any device in a virtual experience as natural as being there.
In addition to being the worldwide leader in market share for best in class group and personal video systems, video and voice collaboration infrastructures and conference phones, Polycom also has the only solution for delivering Unified Collaborative Communications – the convergence of voice, video, data and web – known as The Polycom Office.
Polycom is at the center of the industry shift to broadband networks. IP networks enable the proliferation and convergence of richer communications, including video, which enhance the quality of our lives, create new opportunities, and are fast becoming the foundation for how we work.
Our full range of high-quality, easy to deploy, manage and use voice and video communications endpoints, video management software, web conferencing software, multi-network gateways and multipoint conferencing enable organizations of all sizes to increase productivity and agility. Polycom delivers business value by cutting costs, simplifying system management, fostering real time collaboration and decision making, and improving relationships with employees, customers and partners.
Polycom’s expertise in delivering proven collaborative solutions is a result of its history:
February 2001 Polycom acquired Accord Networks, a leading provider of next-generation, rich-media network infrastructure products. The acquisition expanded Polycom's offerings to include multipoint control units, firewalls and gateways.
October 2001, Polycom completed its acquisition of PictureTel Corporation, adding to its product line the world's leading PC-based group video communications architecture.
January, 2004 Polycom added Voyant Technologies, offering best-in-class products to service providers, carriers or enterprises wanting to provide collaborative, enhanced voice applications to internal or external customers
The combination of strategic acquisitions and continual product innovation positions Polycom for continuing its market and technology leadership in voice, video, web and data collaboration.
Headquartered in Pleasanton, Calif., the company employs more than 1,200 people worldwide and has regional offices throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Polycom’s Industry Leadership
Creator of over 300 patents in collaborative communications
Market leader in video conferencing systems - ViewStation®, iPowerTM and ViaVideoTM
Market leader in voice conferencing endpoints - SoundStation®
Market leader in video management systems – Global Management SystemTM
Market leader in video network infrastructure systems - MGC-100TM
Market leader in voice conferencing – OCI, Readivoice
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http://www.dell.com/
Dell Inc. listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services they trust and value. Uniquely enabled by its direct business model, Dell sells more systems globally than any computer company, placing it No. 25 on the Fortune 500. Dell's climb to market leadership is the result of a persistent focus on delivering the best possible customer experience by directly selling standards-based computing products and services. Revenue for the last four quarters totaled $56.7 billion and the company employs approximately 69,700 team members around the globe.
Dell was founded in 1984 by Michael Dell, the longest-tenured executive to lead a company in the computer industry. The company is based on a simple concept: by selling computer systems directly to customers, Dell could best understand their needs and efficiently provide the most effective computing solutions to meet those needs. This direct business model eliminates retailers that add unnecessary time and cost, or can diminish Dell's understanding of customer expectations. The direct model allows the company to build every system to order and offer customers powerful, richly-configured systems at competitive prices. Dell also introduces the latest relevant technology much more quickly than companies with slow-moving, indirect distribution channels, turning over inventory in just under five days on average.
http://www.ibm.com/
Why IBM servers
IBM servers are designed to deliver technology innovation that matters, simplify IT infrastructure and maximize business productivity. These are the key elements of an on demand operating environment. Our broad range of server offerings is based on technology that, while innovative, is also open to and interoperable with recognized industry standards. And IBM is the only company who carries that philosophy for standards-based innovation into so many different kinds of systems enabling integration across diverse, heterogeneous environments.
Adaptive, innovative systems are critical to the kind of flexible, open, secure computing environment that will enable your business to realize the full benefits of collaborative processing - where information, skills and resources can be shared in real-time between systems, people and processes regardless of the geographic or technological barriers that may have divided them in the past.
